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Has anyone ever interfaced an EIDE Hard drive to the prop?

Don MDon M Posts: 1,653
edited 2010-05-20 18:55 in Propeller 1
Any projects involving same?

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  • heaterheater Posts: 3,370
    edited 2010-05-20 14:01
    Not sure if anyone as done it but it has been discussed here. Consensus seems to be "What's the point?" and "Just use an SD card".

    IDE is going to eat a lot of valuable pins and code space.

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  • Ahle2Ahle2 Posts: 1,179
    edited 2010-05-20 17:17
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CX2E9Xh1hM
    Here is a propeller connected to a harddrive (at least once it was a harddrive).
  • KPRKPR Posts: 189
    edited 2010-05-20 17:50
    Now that is !Explitif! Cool .. I want one of these..

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  • David BDavid B Posts: 592
    edited 2010-05-20 18:51
    I made a propeller ATA interface card from an SX52 protoboard that works pretty well at running IDE hard drives.

    It's not really a "project" with a defined purpose; it's more for entertainment than anything else.

    It's still very much under development, partly as I just realized within the past few days that the same interface should be able to read CDs and DVDS, so I've been adding CDROM enhancements to its code (but without any success so far).
  • Patrick1abPatrick1ab Posts: 136
    edited 2010-05-20 18:55
    I was thinking about implementing SATA recently, but I discarded this idea after a while.
    What about creating a PCI bus object for the next generation of propeller chips?
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